VOLUNTEER Search and Rescue Workers from Liverpool will fly out to Indonesia today.

A group of 10 members from the British Search and Rescue charity International Rescue Corps (IRC) are heading out at noon to help in the aftermath of earthquakes that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The team is made up of seven men from Liverpool, Scotland, Hartlepool, Penrith and Beverley, and three women from Scotland, Norwich and London.

The team will take vital search equipment with them including a camera system which can be fed into the rubble, heat seeking devices, sound location devices and sensor equipment to pick up exhaled breath in a confined space.

The team received a request for help from the Indonesian government last night.